We crossed the Taiping at Myothit by a bridge, a temporary and very shaky structure, which is every year carried away when the river rises, and every year renewed when the caravans take the road after the rains.
Bhamo is 1520 miles by land from Chungking; and it is an equal distance further from Chungking to Shanghai.

The entire distance I traversed in exactly one hundred days, for I purposely waited till the hundredth day to complete it.

And it surely speaks well of the sense of responsibility innate in the Chinese that, during all this time, I never had in my employ a Chinese coolie who did not fulfil, with something to spare, all that he undertook to do.

I paid off my men in Bhamo.

To Laotseng I gave 400 cash too many, and asked him for the change.